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RSS portNetwork Traffic Port Aggregation: Improved Visibility, Security, and Efficiency
White Paper Enterprise entities rely on network systems for internal operations and external communications. Companies of all sizes require that these communication paths function at top speed and transfer data accurately, completely, and consistently. [13 Nov 2009]
How to Get NAC Up-and-Running in One Hour: For Check Point Firewall or Endpoint Security Administrators
White Paper Port-based NAC deployment is challenging, but gateway NAC can deploy in one hour with a Check Point firewall. Check Point Endpoint Security includes support for both port-based and gateway-based solutions. [13 Nov 2009]
Top 10 Things Network Managers Need to Know About Wireless LAN Virtualization
White Paper As far as applications and users are concerned, the Virtual Port has all the same characteristics as an Ethernet port: consistent, reliable connectivity. The big difference is that whereas Ethernet is... [12 Nov 2009]
PCI DSS Compliance and the Digi TransPort Router
White Paper They comply with the PCI DSS version 1.2 requirements via these major features: Stateful inspection firewall, network segmentation via VLAN or Ethernet Port Isolation, MAC filtering to prevent unwanted client PCs on the... [12 Nov 2009]
Top 5 Things CIOs Need to Know About Wireless LAN Virtualization
White Paper The Virtual Cell pools access points so that an entire network can be treated as one AP: the Virtual Port partitions the pool into individual networks tailored to fit each user. Virtualization has already made servers,... [12 Nov 2009]
Making NAC Security-Aware With IF-MAP
White Paper However, no single tool usually has the "big picture," an ability to say that a particular MAC address is on some port of some switch with an IP address, an authenticated identity (and access controls) and an end-point... [12 Nov 2009]
SFTP: The Secure File Transfer Protocol
White Paper The general idea is to connect to a remote SSH/SFTP server on port 22, perform a secure SSH v2 handshake with the remote server, and then all future communications would take place through the existing encrypted tunnel. [12 Nov 2009]
Optimizing Tunneled Grid Connectivity Across Firewalls
White Paper On the other hand, solutions that manage port openings in an ad-hoc manner for applications are non-trivial to implement. Grids today generally assume that concurrent network connections are possible among many... [11 Nov 2009]
Associating the Authentication and Connection-Establishment Phases in Passive Authorization Techniques
White Paper Port Knocking and Single Packet Authorization (SPA) are passive authorization techniques that provide firewall-level authentication to ensure authorized access to potentially vulnerable network services. [11 Nov 2009]
How a Spanning Tree Works
White Paper The switch will also associate a learned MAC address with a port. The way a switch learns Ethernet (MAC) addresses is by inspecting the Ethernet frame and recording the source MAC address in a dynamic table. [03 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet Nope, you can get your documents on the device too - Word and PDF documents are supported - as the device comes with a USB port. That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size... [07 Oct 2009]
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
White Paper A weak point in network-based applications is that they commonly open some known communication port(s), making themselves targets for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Considering adversaries that can eavesdrop and launch... [02 Oct 2009]
A Case Study: Using Architectural Features to Improve Sophisticated Denial-of-Service Attack Detections
White Paper Application features such as port numbers are used by Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs) to detect attacks coming from networks. System calls and the operating system related information are used by... [02 Oct 2009]
School Improves Teaching and Learning While Cutting ICT Costs by Approximately 45 Per Cent
White Paper IT administrators consulted with Dell and came up with a novel way for teachers to control these projectors from their desks, using a port replicator solution. Xaveriuscollege wanted to provide all teachers with the... [02 Oct 2009]
Antwerp Port Authority: Secure Electronic Invoicing Solution
White Paper Antwerp Port Authority manages the 4th largest port in the world, including docks, berths, locks, and bridges. The challenge was to establish and maintain a secure and trusted e-Invoicing solution, to... [01 Oct 2009]
